Manuel Aureliano is a Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Algarve, Portugal, as well as a Director of the Biochemistry degree (1998-2013; 2021-2025) and PhD in Biological Sciences (2025-). Since 1985, he has investigated the chemical, biochemical, and biological roles and applications of decavanadate and other polyoxometalates in the environment and biomedicine. He has been honoured as an “Outstanding Reviewer” for Metallomics (2017, 2018, and 2019). He has also served as a reviewer for about 900 papers from around 150 journals, as well as an Editor, Associate Editor, and/or Guest Editor for several journals. From 2021 to 2025, he was included in the “World´s Top 2% Scientists list” (for both impact-career and year), being co-author of six papers that are considered “Highly cited papers”. Recently (2024), he was awarded the third edition of the “UAlg Researcher Award”.